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EMMY NOMINATED SERIES directed by and starring Steve Buscemi is back for a second season!!! Park Bench is a local's take on the special people, places, and spirit of New York City. Through unscripted moments with average New Yorkers and Steve's celeb friends, Buscemi takes viewers on a funny, first-hand journey/misadventure, told in his unique voice.

Journey to the Draft is an organic, unscripted, docu-series that follows three college football players, all with promising professional careers. These young men attend different schools across the country and play a variety of positions on the field, but at the end of the day they share one goal:to play in the NFL. The AOL docu-series follows players Leonard Williams, Kevin White and Marcus Peters.

Connected features the personal stories of six New Yorkers woven together into one of the most intimate series ever. This groundbreaking show changes the nature of storytelling by giving each character a camera to document their lives. The result is a unique format revealing as different as everyone appears to be, we are all universally Connected.

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"Stricly Come Dancing presenter Tess Daly and The Saturdays' Rochelle Humes talk to mums about their experiences of being mum. Whether the daughter of a Rolling Stone, in one of the most famous girl bands the world has ever known, or a parent coping with disability as well as family life, each mother in Being Mum shows that the feelings, challenges and rewards of motherhood are universal no matter the surroundings you find yourself in."

Jews and Money. Asian Drivers. Polish IQ. CPT… that's racist! But where do these stereotypes come from? Comedian Mike Epps explores the backstories of this humor and how history and fact often distorts into a snide – but sometimes funny – shorthand.

"INSPIRED" features celebrities, visionaries and some of the biggest newsmakers of our generation, recounting the stories behind their biggest, life-changing moments of inspiration.

In a compelling series of verite encounters, Win Win provides unique access into the minds and lives of the world’s most-celebrated entrepreneurs and athletes.

Explore what it means to be human as we rush head first into the future through the eyes, creativity, and mind of Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker and speaker, founder of The Webby Awards, mother, constant pusher of boundaries and one of Newsweek’s “women shaping the 21st Century.”

Nicole Richie brings her unfiltered sense of humor and unique perspective to life in a new series based on her irreverent twitter feed. The show follows the outspoken celebrity as she shares her perspective on style, parenting, relationships and her journey to adulthood.

Comedy is hard, but teaching comedy to children is hilariously difficult. Kevin Nealon is giving the challenge to some world-famous comedians. As these young minds meet with comedy’s best, get ready to learn some valuable comedy lessons, and to laugh!

James Franco loves movies. He loves watching them, acting in them, directing them, and even writing them. And now, he’s going to take some of his favorite movie scenes from the most famous films of all time, and re-imagine them in ways that only James can.

The story of punk rock singer Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! who came out as a woman in 2012, and other members of the trans community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media.

Violence in China's Xinjiang region last week left close to 100 people dead, according to reports on Sunday. Chinese state media says the killings —which it attributes to a terrorist attack— happened on Monday, and that the dead include 37 civilians and 59 terrorists. (Via Xin hua ) "They also attacked civilians and smashed vehicles as they passed, using roadblocks to stop vehicles. Car passengers were then attacked." (Via CCTV ) Those state media reports, which closely mirrored each other, attributed the attacks to terrorists both inside and outside China, and pointed to a man named Nuramat Sawud as the mastermind. (Via Getty Images ) But, as The Wall Street Journal reports, little is known about Sawud who is "described as the local leader of the movement and responsible in the past year for spreading audio and video calls for separatism and religious extremism." Xinjiang region, where the attacks took place, has a large population of Uighurs, a predominately Muslim ethnic group that has long struggled with the Chinese government over independence. (Via Google ) Some have attributed the recent spate of violence in Xinjiang to restrictions imposed on Uighurs by the government, which prevented many from observing the traditional fasting that happens during the recent month of Ramadan. The state-approved imam of Id Kah Mosque in the nearby city of Kashgar, who the BBC reports was a vocal supporter of government policies in the region, was stabbed to death as he left the mosque on Wednesday. Then, on Friday: "Nine suspects have been shot dead by Chinese police in Xinjiang province; that's according to state media reports." (Via Al Jazeera ) And in May, 31 people were killed when two SUVs were driven into an open air market in Urumqi, the region's capital, an attack that was also chalked up to terrorists. (Via CNN ) It's the most violence the region has seen in years, since clashes five years ago in Urumqi left almost 200 dead. (Via Getty Images ) The delay between events and when they're reported is characteristic given Chinese government control over media, which the Financial Times reports has been tightened since protests in Hong Kong. And the new restrictions are somewhat ambiguous as "None of the key terms used – including state secrets, commercial secrets and unpublicised information – were defined." Xinjiang is currently seeing a year-long "terrorism crackdown" started by police after that attack in May.

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